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201, Lot: 25. Estimate $100.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Mygdones or Krestones. Circa 485-470 BC. Fourrée Stater (23mm, 7.23 g). Goat kneeling right, head reverted; ΛA above / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Lorber, Goats issue 7a; cf. HPM pl. III, 8. Fine, plating broken.


Originally attributed to the Macedonian city of Aigai, this series has recently been re-evaluated by O. Picard ("Les monnaies au bouc attribuées à Aigai," BSFN 50/6 [1995]) and C. Lorber, “The Goats of ‘Aigai’” in pour Denyse, who have convincingly shown that, based on linguistic and iconographic evidence, Aigai cannot possibly be correct. Lorber also re-evaluated the contemporary numismatic and historical evidence, and synthesized her findings with metrological, iconographic, and hoard data to conclude that these coins were actually tribal issues emanating from an area west or southwest of Bisaltia, probably inhabited by the Mygdones or Krestones. This particular issue with LA on the obverse is always fourrée.